Hello Herman - Several of us in the
Houston community use Textpad editor (we got into this mode in using
another product, - TRADE with FastTrack) to open/close multiple files.
It has a nice feature that it displays the opened files tree,
with text shading to indicate what's been changed, saved etc.
For example if I want to open multiple files I
can select these 10 files as I would in
Windows mode by holding the shift key while selecting.
All files are opened with the first one in display. It's now
easy to toggle from one window to the other to
bring the focus to the file I want displayed. It has what I'll call
syntax color coding that can be customized. It has a full function
Search - find, find in files, find and replace, find next, find
previous etc.
When the forum was kicking around ideas about the
editor I suggested that Tomasz add this kind of function for the AB
editor. Of course it would be preferable to have that function in AB, because what I miss sorely by
using TextPad is the precompiler and syntax
checker. Tomasz did enhance the AB
editors search/replace function and as he pointed out you can open multiple
instances of the editor and float them around the screen if you have enough
real estate.
I think the problem of finding the correct file by
sorting out the names/version in each opened editor window is one of the
challenges. Maybe having a tab
strip showing opened file (something available
in TextPad also.
Oh and I forgot to mention the ability to turn
on/off line numbering
Bottom line - I'd like to have most of the features
of Textpad but not at the expense of delaying other AB features, like
enhancements to the portfolio program.
We should put this in the suggestion area as a help
to Tomasz
Best regards
JOE
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 3:43
AM
Subject: [amibroker] Preview for afl
file-window
Hello,
Would anyone know how to add a
preview window to the file-window for the afl formula editor?
This relates recent
edits. During development I writes lots of small pieces of code to
test various ideas and I save many for later reference.
The problem is that even though I
try to give them meaningful names I have a very difficult time to
find and retrieve code fragments that I know I wrote but for which I
don't know in which file they resides. This means i have to open up 10-20
recent files to find a particular piece of code I need. If i could
see a preview of the file when I select it in the File menu I would be
able to see immediately whether i have the right file or not without
actually having to open/close the file each time.
This is not a problem for historical
work as I collect all code in InfoSelect, however i only do that about
once a week.
Any ideas would be
appreciated!
herman
